期刊
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
卷 62, 期 5, 页码 487-495出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2006.10.033
关键词
controllability; dentate gyrus; depression; learned helplessness; neurogenesis; sex differences; stress
资金
- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH059970-08, R01 MH059970-06, R01 MH059970-09, R01 MH059970-10, R01 MH059970-07] Funding Source: Medline
- PHS HHS [NIMH 59970] Funding Source: Medline
Background: Numerous studies have implicated neurogenesis in the hippocampus in animal models of depression, especially those related to controllability and learned helplessness. Here, we tested the hypothesis that uncontrollable but not controllable stress would reduce cell proliferation in the hippocampus of male and female rats and would relate to the expression of helplessness behavior. Methods: To manipulate controllability, groups of male and female rats were trained in one session (acute stress) or over seven sessions (repeated stress) to escape a footshock, whereas yoked control subjects could not escape but were exposed to the same amount of stress. Cell proliferation was assessed with immunohistochemistry of bromodeoxyuricline (BrdU) and immunofluorescence of BrdU and neuronal nuclei (NeuN). Separate groups were exposed to either controllable or uncontrollable stress, and their ability to learn to escape during training on a more difficult task was used as a behavioral measure of helplessness. Results: Acute stress reduced cell proliferation in males but did not affect proliferation in the female hippocampus. When animals were given the opportunity to learn to control the stress over seven days, males produced more cells than the yoked males without control. Repeated training with controllable stress did not influence proliferation in females. Under all conditions, males were more likely than females to express helplessness behavior, even males that were not previously stressed. Conclusions: The modulation of neurogenesis by controllability was evident in males but not in females, as was the expression of helplessness behavior, despite the fact that men are less likely than women to experience depression.
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